Kia on Friday said it is contesting an Indian tax demand of $14 million for wrongly using free trade agreements to claim lower tariffs on some electronic car part imports, the latest tax tussle between the South Korean automaker and New Delhi.

Tax investigations in India can drag on for years and are often a sore point for foreign companies. Kia is separately fighting a USD 155 million tax evasion notice, and Volkswagen has sued New Delhi against a record USD 1.

Indian tax authorities have sent a confidential notice to South Korean car maker Kia Motors accusing it of evading millions of dollars in taxes. The amount could be as high as $155m (£125m) and the notice was sent in April last year, according to Reuters.

India has accused South Korea’s Kia of evading taxes of $155 million (Rs 1356 crore) by misclassifying component imports but the carmaker has denied wrongdoing, the latest fight by a foreign automaker with New Delhi over tariffs, according to a document and two sources.

Weeks after German luxury car maker Volkswagen slapped a lawsuit against the government of India over a $1.4 billion tax evasion notice, KIA faces GOI’s sweet chin music for allegedly evading $155 million in taxes. Will the South Korean car maker take the same legal recourse as the Skoda maker?

After Volkswagen, South Korean automaker Kia has come under Indian authority’s lens for evading taxes.As per the government, Kia has evaded $155 mill

India has accused South Korea's Kia of evading taxes of $155 million by misclassifying component imports but the carmaker has denied

South Korean automaker, Kia, is disputing a $14 million tax demand from Indian authorities, the company revealed on Friday. The tax demand alleges that Kia wrongly claimed lower tariffs on certain electronic car part imports,

India has accused South Korean carmaker, Kia of evading taxes of $155 million by missclassifying component imports, reported Reuters quoting a document and two sources. The latest conflict comes in a series of such rifts between a foreign automaker with New Delhi over tariffs.

Kia India has received a tax demand notice from the authorities over component imports even as the automaker has denied any wrongdoing noting that it has filed a "detailed response" regarding the matt